Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earlier in the year, he made a trip through the South and Southwest, visiting schools in the area and talking before Harvard clubs and civic organizations. Shortly before Commencement, President Conant visited several mid-western states in connection with the Associated Harvard Clubs meeting in Milwaukee...
Aping the theorists' own gibble-gabble, Stabler said that the rise "disposed of surmises that [it] is merely a secondary move within a primary swing after testing double tops on a northeast course follow ing raising of a right shoulder in a southwest storm...
...heat was the news most of the week almost everywhere in the U.S. It was hot in the South, hot in the Southwest, hot in the Midwest, hot and humid as a Finnish bathhouse along the Eastern Seaboard...
...band of English artisans laboriously cleared and drained. There they waited for the followers whom Mother Ann prophesied would join them in the New World. In 1780, the followers began to show up. From then on, the Shakers slowly spread, settling together in communities called "families" from Maine to southwest Kentucky. Between 1840 and 1860, they attained their peak membership. Their peculiar religious practices caused the world's people to persecute them. Mother Ann's life is believed to have been shortened by a beating she took from a Massachusetts mob. But the Shakers' honesty and industry...
...Southwest's University of Texas tops it by almost 8,000 students...